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...audience is surprised to learn Gabriel’s suspicions might be justified by his wife’s surprisingly intimate relationship with a young music student (a quiet Jesse Pennington); the bond, however, turns out to be something far deeper than lust and stronger even than true love...
...most friendly and open folks you'll ever meet, share a special affinity with Americans. We want to dispel any notion floated by Hughes that Australians may not be the greatest people on earth, because our experience tells us that they very well may be. NACZ AND CATHE URBANSKI Pennington...
...past five years, a new police superintendent has turned the department around. Richard Pennington invited the FBI in, asking it to assign three agents to his new Public Integrity Unit. He tightened the screening process for recruits, looking not only for criminal records but also for money troubles that could make them susceptible to financial temptation. Complaints against the department are down 27% in five years, the city's murder rate fell 31% last year, and public confidence is growing...
...early. That has been an important reform in New Orleans, where the police department has come a long way from October 1994, when Officer Len Davis ordered a lethal hit on citizen Kim Groves for filing a brutality complaint against him. On the same day Groves was killed, Richard Pennington was sworn in across town as the new superintendent of police. With the city's reputation in free fall, Pennington moved quickly to replace the department's discredited internal-affairs division with a more independent public-integrity division and to ban controversial restraining tactics such as choke holds...
...Pennington also established an early-warning system that flags the records of cops who have drawn more than one complaint. Those officers get 40 hours of training in everything from their choice of words when making an arrest to the correct way to secure handcuffs. Says Pennington: "We jump on the problem and address it immediately...